The 45 Questions Most
Frequently Asked About the Jews
With the Answers by Pelley
Copyright 1939 by William Dudley
Pelley
CONTENTS
- Why did God
create such a difference between Jew and Gentile, so that the
Jew is at once recognized, no matter what race he lives among?
- How did the Jews
come to have such strange traditions setting them apart,
racially and religiously, from the Gentiles?
- Should we say
that Jews are members of a race, or followers of a religion?
- If the Jew is the
follower of a religion, why does it cause him so much
inconvenience or harassment, as against the followers of other
religions?
- What is the
Talmud?
- Is the Talmud a
single book?
- Are the two
Talmuds alike?
- How did the
Babylonian Talmud come to be written, if the Jerusalem Talmud
was already in existence?
- Are the two
Talmuds the holy books of the Jews?
- What does the
term Rabbi mean?
- Is a Rabbi and a
Jewish priest one and the same?
- Why did the
Destruction of the Temple destroy the Israelite priestly caste?
- What was the Ark
of the Covenant?
- Is there any
difference between the Jehovah of the Jews, and the Divine
Father spoken of by Jesus and as worshipped by the Christians?
- What is the
difference between a Jewish Temple and a Synagogue … and isn't
the synagogue the Jewish Church?
- Are the modern
Jews and the ancient Israelites one and the same people?
- Were there no
Jews in the world prior to the coming of Jacob's sons to Egypt?
- Was there really
an Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob?
- Did not Christ's
words confirm that there was an Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
- Why does the Old
Testament refer to the early Hebrews as Israelites?
- Have we any other
accounts than those of the Old Testament on the advent and
adventures of the Hebrews in Egypt?
- Were the Children
of Israel persecuted by the Egyptians?
- Was Pharaoh
drowned in the Red Sea while the favored Hebrews passed over to
Midian unscathed?
- Is the Exodus
story a myth?
- Did Moses write
the first five books of the Old Testament?
- Why do we call
the Jews "Semites"?
- Have the Jews the
right to designate Palestine as their Homeland?
- Why were the Jews
carried captive to Babylon?
- Why do today's
Jews make such an ungodly pother about returning to Palestine as
a race?
- How many Jews are
there in the whole world today?
- What is the
Jewish Sanhedrin?
- Is the Sanhedrin
still in active existence?
- Do Jews actually
believe that the day is coming when they are going to be supreme
masters over all the other races and peoples of earth?
- Are the Jews a
united people for the achievement of a world messiahship?
- How do Sephardic
Jews differ from Ashkenazic Jews?
- To which branch
of Jews did Jesus Christ belong?
- Why did the Jews
deny Christ?
- Why does the
Bible, as the "Inspired Word of God," persistently represent
Christ as being a Jew?
- What was
Ebionitism?
- Isn't the Bible
the Inspired Word of God?
- What is the
Vulgate?
- How can we
condemn or persecute people who cannot help having been born
into the Jewish race?
- What is to be the
future of the Jews when this present paroxysm of anti-Semitism
has run its course?
- Why jump on all
the Jews, just because some of them misbehave? Aren't there any
good Jews?
- Is it true that
all Jews are Communists?
ASSUME that you are a normal American citizen, born and raised in this
one-time Land of the Free, educated in its public schools, and a member
of some Christian denomination -- Catholic or Protestant. You are as
good as you can be, and probably no worse than circumstances allow. You
are undoubtedly married and possibly have children. You pay your bills
as best you can, and subscribe to a policy of "Live and Let Live!" If
you have sympathies, they usually go to the under dog in a contest, and
if you have a pet peeve, it's being hoaxed or bamboozled. In other
words, you're a 99 percent American, trying as best you can to get along
and stay out of jail; you like to see fights carried on in a sporting
manner and don't especially enjoy the realization that someone thinks of
you, or treats you, as a "sap." . . . Very good!
You look about you in this Land
of the Free -- that isn't as free as it was in your boyhood -- and
observe that your country, your State, and perhaps your city or
neighborhood, also contain a quota of human beings who are commonly
labeled Jews. They are people whom you know you must watch in any
business deal, for their trickery is so proverbial that the word "Jew"
is often used as verb as well as noun. When your neighbor comes to you
and tells you that his partner "Jewed" him out of last year's profits,
you know at once what he means. He means that he was cheated. No one has
maliciously originated this use of the word Jew. It has simply come
about through long experience of "your kind" of folks in dealing with
Israelites. But you know other things about Jews.
You know that as a people they
have definite characteristics that forever mark them out as being Jews.
Some have enormous hooked noses. Others have a queer rubbery look about
the eyes. Some you can pick out because of the vulgarity of their dress
or the lewd way in which they display and wear expensive jewelry.
Commonly you recognize them by the manner in which they talk. That they
have no reserve, no respect for other people's privacies, and little
stability of character -- being arrogant and insolent one moment and
fawning and wailing the next -- is something you've probably observed
subconsciously. Furthermore, they are great people to hive up, or gang
together. In our great cities, they prefer to live close to one another
to such an extent that we call their localities of abode, "Ghettos." . .
.
But there is
this strange item about these Jews: from the time that you were first
able to walk and talk, or know anything about religion or history, you
have had it dinned into your consciousness that this strange folk -- as
a race -- were special favorites of the Almighty.
The popular term designating
them has been "God's Chosen People."
God, it seems, back over the
ages, for no particularly good reason that you've been able to figure
out in logic, took an eccentric divine fancy to this especial breed of
humans. You don't know exactly why God should have done so. You don't
see many characteristics in them today that should have prompted God to
make such a choice. All the same, tradition has informed you that God
once promised the whole earth and all the peoples in it, to the seed of
Abraham, and to cap the whole business, you were further informed that
the universal Savior of all mankind -- the Christ, born in the Bethlehem
Manger and crucified on Calvary for the sins of the world -- was
likewise a Jew.
It stacks up to you, if you have
ever given thought to it at all, that if it hadn't been for the Jews,
the world would have had no Christ. You don't know a whole lot about the
authenticity of the business; again, I say, that's what you've keen
told.
Lately you've been told a lot of
other things, and chiefly they concern one race of people abroad who
were our recent enemies in the World War. The Germans! You've peen told
that all of a sudden the Germans have arisen under their Chancellor,
Adolf Hitler, and "persecuted" the Jews -- persecuted them frightfully.
In fact, this persecution amounts to kicking them out of Germany. After
living in that country for generations, they've had to pull up stakes,
give up their homes and friends, and flee from the wrath of the Terrible
Nazis. Of course it has been represented to you, that the Jews were by
no means guilty of doing anything to Hitler, his followers, or the
German people as a whole, meriting such inhuman treatment. The Germans,
almost overnight, decided that they simply didn't like the Jews, and
didn't want them around. So they rose up and clubbed and maimed and
hounded the poor Israelites, who had to flee to foreign countries before
such pagan violence.
And while such unfair and
unsporting treatment has been going on in Germany, a lot of other
Old-World nations have taken their cue from Hitler and decided it would
be nice to seize the opportunity to resort to some inhuman violence on
their own Jews as well. People who don't want to see Communism come in
their country, want a scapegoat for it and blame it on the Jews. So
other nations follow Germany's lead and join in giving the Jew a good
kick in the pants.
Of course the Jew wants some
place to flee to, therefore he asks permission to come over here into
the United States. A halfcrazy Jewish boy shoots a Nazi official in
Paris, and the German people riot and treat the Jews roughly, ending up
by fining the whole race -- or such part of it as lives in Germany --
something like $400,000,000 for the mischief.
You feel that such treatment is
a bit unfair, and yet when the Jew asks permission to come over here to
the United States, you wonder how on earth the country is going to take
on any more liabilities. We have something like 12 million unemployed
already, and only about so much work to go around. If ungodly numbers of
refugee Jews come over here, somebody must support them. If they apply
for work and support themselves, it means that an equal number of native
American Gentiles must relinquish their present jobs and either go on
Relief or join the bread line.
Nevertheless, it looks as though
the attitude of the Roosevelt Administration is to let them come in. It
seems the humane thing to do.
But gradually it has likewise
been occurring to you, that the attitude of even the Federal
Administration is changing. Instead of Christian Gentile people being
put in key government jobs, the big places in Washington are being
filled by Jews. You hear that Morgenthau is a Jew, Madam Perkins is a
Jewess, Judge Brandeis is a Jew, Felix Frankfurter -- who has just gone
upon the Supreme Court Bench -- is another Jew. In fact something like
275 of the biggest and most vital positions in the Washington
government, are filled by Jews. You hear that Jews control or own 65
percent of the nation's industries. You know that the movies are owned
and run by Jews. As for the Relief agencies, since the Administration
has had to meet the problem of aid to the unemployed they are everywhere
staffed by Jews and most of them Communist Jews at that.
All of a sudden, all over the
earth, it seems, everybody is becoming Jew-conscious. Jews are
everywhere. They are into everything. If you hear of a great vice ring
being broken up in New York, Chicago or San Francisco -- always it is
Jews that are reported as having been arrested. Is a great arson ring
run to earth? Again the perpetrators are Jews. Is the white slave trade
attacked? Again Jews are nabbed for having engaged in it. Does Dewey
make a great pother about busting up the rackets in New York? Get behind
the Gentile names being used by the racketeers, and always the true
names of the culprits are Jewish.
Jews are into crime, it seems,
even as they are into business. You turn on the radio of a Sunday
afternoon and dial into Father Coughlin. He is thundering from his Royal
Oak pulpit against the International Bankers. But they all have Jewish
names. What on earth is making the whole world seem to go crazy
simultaneously against the Jews?
Some Sunday evening you read a
bitter tirade in the papers against the Jews, or some spirited defense
of the Jews, and you suddenly bethink to ask yourself -- -
Just how much do you know
about the Jews, or the Jewish Question, anyway?
Whom can you go to, to ask
truthful particulars about the Jews, and get the real low-down on why
they may be persecuted from the poles to the equator?
All at once it seems as if there
were about a hundred questions you'd like to ask about the Jews -- why
they act as they do, why they always stir up such animosity against
themselves in whatever land they settle, why they exhibit such buttinsky
manners that rile other races and make them retaliate, what the real
Jewish situation is throughout the earth. and what's to be the end of
it.
Well, my
friend, average and normal American that you are, this little booklet is
put into your hands, anticipating your questions and answering them
candidly, honestly, without undue bias, and in the intense patriotic
desire to preserve the welfare of this, our mutual country, against
inequitable encroachments by minorities especially minorities with a
different moral code.
You may feel the desire to
combat some of the answers, and others you will probably want more
enlightenment upon. But in the main, if you do further checking, you'll
discover to your amazement that the answers are quite accurate. They
have been compiled, not as any sort of Nazi propaganda, but by the
officials of an American patriotic movement, after years of being
interrogated on the public platform and in private interviews precisely
in the manner set forth in this handbook.
The true purpose of this
handbook, therefore, is to open your eyes to what's going on around you,
and what an unhallowed menace to the peace, prosperity, and longevity of
your country, this influx of overseas Israelites may be.
If you want more information on
any of these answers, you can get it -- pressed down and overflowing, in
such detail as to stupefy you. There is now a vast and equitably
authenticated literature on this most vital of all issues to the
non-Jewish peoples of the earth. And it is yours for the acquiring.
However, to the first question.
What is it that people most want to know about the Jews --
1. Why did God create such a
difference between Jew and Gentile, so that the Jew is at once
recognized, no matter what race he lives among?
Answer -- God did not create
any essential difference between Jew and Gentile. The difference between
Jew and Gentile is a man-made thing entirely. It has arisen from the
fact that over the generations the priests, scribes, and rabbis of the
Jews have compiled a great mass of racial and religious instruction
which the Jewish baby imbibes with its mother's milk. This racial and
religious instruction impresses upon each new Jewish child, from the
moment it first begins to understand the Hebrew tongue that it has been
born into a race that is "different" from the other races of mankind,
that it has been born into a "better" race, and that by comparison with
the people of the Jewish race, the people of all the other races are
likened to mere cattle and animals. However -- unfortunately -- while
the people of the Jewish race are "better," at the same time they are
fewer in number. So, being the smarter and yet in the minority, the
members of the Jewish race suffer "persecution" -- which comes from
naught else than the jealousy of the more populous races, who are
resentful that the "better" and "smarter" Jews best them at every turn.
Such is the psychology in which the Jewish child is reared, and after a
time he builds a defense mechanism against the results of it. He looks
at the members of all other races as his "enemies" and is in a state of
subconscious antagonism with them. God has had nothing to do with it. It
is a case of race psychology that has gained such a terrific momentum up
through the ages that no one Jew can arrest or change it.
2. How did the Jews come to
have such strange traditions setting them apart, racially and
religiously, from the Gentiles?
Answer -- When Moses led the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, he is traditionally
credited with having introduced a strange custom for the perpetuation of
his One-God religious ideas and the priesthood that was intended to keep
them alive in the hearts of the Israelites. He laid it down as a law
that the first-born son of every Hebrew family should be dedicated to
the priestly calling, also that one-tenth of the resources of every
family should be donated for the upkeep of such priesthood. Now for one
boy out of every family to be qualified as a priest, or "cohen" -- from
which so many modern Jews get the surname Cohen -- meant that over a
long period of time the numbers of priests must become prodigious. There
were so many of them, in fact, that they came to be recognized as a
caste, called Levites. Incidentally from Levites we get the many
variations or names such as Levi, or Levy, that designate today's Jews.
These formidable numbers of priests came eventually to make the Hebrews
the worst priest-ridden people on the face of the earth. They had to be
supported, and anything that in any way threatened their priestly jobs,
met with swift and fierce opposition. The only way that they could
preserve these jobs, was by enforcing a rigid solidarity and racial
consciousness among the masses, and binding them tight to the priestly
counsel. The only way such solidarity and racial consciousness could be
created and maintained in turn, was to so interpret religion -- or what
passed for religion -- that the populace could not perform the simplest
acts of daily life without having the priestly interpretation of it, and
making the people feel that such priests were indispensable. This was
accomplished by training the people to think that they were "different,"
and thus creating the barrier between them and members of other races in
consequence. As the priests were likewise the only learned men, and in
charge of the Israelite traditions, they could interject into those
traditions what they pleased -- if it only impressed upon their people a
sense of the priestly importance, that they -- the Israelites -- were
the truly great people and those beloved of the Creator, and that the
priests were unchallenged leaders over them. Today we would term such
monopoly a racket, because basically it was built on priestly gain and
power. In other words, whatever enhanced the racial and spiritual
solidarity of this people, enhanced the influence and indispensability
of the priestly caste. So in teaching the Israelites to think that they
were "different" and "better" the priests were feathering their own
nests and making their jobs sure-fire and profitable. So Israelite --
and later Jewish -- traditions became what they are today. It is
ingrained into the Jew to think himself "different," and "better," and
the priest-rabbi now has such a hold over him that he cannot be a Jew
without acknowledging the priest-rabbi influence in the most trivial of
his daily acts.
3. Should we say that Jews
are members of a race or followers of a religion?
Answer -- The Jews,
according to blood-tests made in English laboratories, belong to one of
the divisions of the oriental or yellow-branch of the human family.
Biologically, or anthropologically, they are not a race unto themselves
-- as the Finns, the Britons, the Latins, or the Negroes. Strange to
relate, and contrary to popular notion, the Jew has no physical
characteristics but his basic Mongoloid stock to mark him out as to
which division of the species he belongs. The great hooked nose or
"schnozzle" of the Ashkenazic Jew, is a feature that he acquired by
cross-breeding over untold generations with the Assyrians. So the Jews
of today are orientals who have been kept politically intact throughout
the earth by a clan consciousness derived from the peculiarities of
their common Mosaic faith. Jews have crossbred with other races to such
an extent that there is almost no such thing today as a pure-blooded
Jew. Anthropologically the Jew is a racial hybrid, wherever we find him.
That is why he no longer welds together politically or sets up a
strictly Jewish nation. It is the more nearly correct thing to say that
the Jew is the follower of a religion -- and a particularly formalized
and debased religion at that -- and any claim to membership in a "race"
is spurious.
4. If the Jew is the follower
of a religion, why does it cause him so much inconvenience or harassment
as against the followers of other religions?
Answer -- Strictly speaking,
it does not. There are hundreds of religions being practiced in the
world today, and the devotees of each are quite as fanatical and
defensive of their tenets of faith as the Jew -- speaking now of the
orthodox Jew. What seems to be inconvenience and harassment
resulting to the Jew from his religion, visited upon him of course by
other races and devotees of other faiths, is the debased character of
his concepts in regard to God and humanity that are not religious so
much as theological. Here again a plethora of priests is responsible.
Having, as we might put it, nothing else to occupy their time, and being
insistent on making themselves indispensable to this particular people,
these priests have "laid down the law" to a minute detail that in the
estimate of other religionists is little short of ridiculous. For
instance, it is a religious "sin" for a Jewish family to have butter on
the table if they also have lard. So many white hairs must be counted on
a cow's pelt in order to truthfully call the beast a "white" cow -- such
absurdities became priestly designations. There is no act of the
strictly orthodox Jew's life, from the instant he awakens in the morning
till he closes his eyes at night, that his priests have not prescribed
for him as to what is right and what is wrong, what is "sin" and what is
"keeping the law." As a result, his religion has lost all its
spontaneous spirituality. And a theology without inherent spirituality
soon begins to present a blunted or distorted moral code. This in time
becomes no code at all. Finally when the psychopathy of this plethora of
priests begins to tell the Israelites that it is altogether "moral" for
him to lie and cheat and steal -- if it be done to a human being who is
not an Israelite -- the devotees of such an unmoral or non-spiritual
cult are bound to land in plenty of social trouble with their neighbors.
And such atrocious tenets are precisely what the Talmuds, or Jewish
rabbinical writings, DO teach -- although it is not our intent to swell
this little book with the authenticating Talmudic quotations. The latter
can be procured in a special booklet giving these atrocious quotations
and naught else.
5. What is the Talmud?
Answer -- The Talmud is the
name given to the fundamental code of the Jewish civil and canonical law
as compiled by various rabbis, or schools of theological writers, after
and since the destruction of the first Temple at Jerusalem. It comprises
the Mishna and the Gemara. The Mishna is the canonical text, the Gemara
is the commentary or complement to the text.
6. Is the Talmud a single book?
Answer -- No, there are two
Talmuds. There is the one called the "Talmud of the Occidentals" --
sometimes referred to as the Jerusalem or Palestine Talmud, which was
closed at Tiberius. Then there is the Babylonian Talmud. But the
Babylonian Talmud has nothing to do with the Captivity of the Jews in
Babylon. It gets its name from the fact that it was compiled by Rabbi
Ashe, president of the Academy of Sora in Babylon, about 400 years
after Christ. The Jerusalem Talmud is the older book, originating in
Tiberius, in the school of Johanan, who died A.D. 179.
7. Are the two Talmuds alike?
Answer -- No! The Babylonian
Talmud, compiled some time in the fifth century after Christ, is nearly
four times as voluminous as the Jerusalem Talmud. The latter extends
over 30 treatises of the Mishna only. The Babylonian Talmud covers 36
treatises but the Gemara or commentaries fill 2,947 folio leaves --
nearly 3,000 pages.
8. How did the Babylonian
Talmud come to be written, if the Jerusalem Talmud was already in
existence?
Answer -- Both the Mishna
and Palestine Gemaras had, despite the comparatively brief time that had
elapsed since their compilation in A.D. 179, suffered greatly, partly by
corruption, that had crept into their texts through faulty traditions,
partly through the new decisions arrived at independently in the
different younger schools of rabbis -- of which there flourished many in
different parts of the Dispersion after the destruction of Jerusalem by
Titus the Roman, in 70 A.D. At times these decisions were contradictory.
To put an end to disputes and the general theological confusion
resulting from them, which threatened a complete religious chaos, Rabbi
Ashe, aided by his disciple and friend Rab Abina, commenced the
cyclopean task of collecting anew the enormous mass of material which by
that time had accumulated. It took him, with the assistance of ten
secretaries, no less than 30 years, and many years were spent by him in
the revision of the work.
9. Are the two Talmuds the holy
books of the Jews?
Answer -- No! Strictly
speaking, the Biblical Old Testament is the holy book of the Jews, the
same as it is one-half of the Holy Book of the Christians, the New
Testament being the other half for the Christians. To get the more
correct idea of the relationship of the Talmuds to the Old Testament, we
might put it that the Talmuds bear the same relation to the Old
Testament that the Constitution of the United States does to the
Christian religion as practiced or professed by American Christians. The
Old Testament gives the background and supposedly sacred history and
social code of all Israelites; the Talmuds are the compilations of the
commentaries of the rabbis and learned scribes of this people,
interpreting this background, history, and code for the daily conduct of
Judaists and the application of their Faith to the worldly circumstance.
10. What does the term Rabbi
mean?
Answer -- In Jewish history
and literature, Rabbi is the noun "Rab" with a pronominal suffix, and in
Biblical Hebrew it means "great man, distinguished for age, rank,
office, or skill." Since Biblical times, and in popular parlance, it has
been used as a title indicating sundry degrees by its several
terminations, but generally speaking it means Master Teacher, or Doctor
of the Law.
11. Is a Rabbi and a Jewish
priest one and the same?
Answer -- Absolutely not! Up
to the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, in 70 A.D., and
the scattering of the Jews throughout the earth, the priests were the
officials, dignitaries, and sacred attaches of the Temple and its
ceremonials. After the Temple was destroyed, the Hebraic law was kept
alive in the hearts of orthodox Jews by district teachers, who merely
expounded the canonical law. In other words, the difference between a
Jewish priest and a rabbi might be likened to the difference between an
ordained clergyman or priest of the Christian religion and a Professor
of Theology in a theological seminary.
12. Why did the Destruction of
the Temple destroy the Israelite priestly caste?
Answer -- Because Israelite
priests, strictly speaking, were personal attendants on a literal
Jehovah, who, when in contact with the earthly world and His Chosen
People, was assumed to be somehow attached mystically to the Ark of the
Covenant. This Ark of the Covenant was carried by four men before the
Israelitish hosts into battle on long pole-handles, and because Jehovah
was popularly represented as being connected therewith, He literally
"went before His people into battle." Sometimes the Lord God was thus
captured by His puny mortal enemies -- or enemies of the Israelites, and
that wasn't so good. It always gave the Israelites a horrible funk to
have their Lord God captured by their enemies. When the Israelites had
finally conquered Canaan and had no more battles to fight, they required
some place to put the Lord God. So they erected the Temple -- which all
good Christian Masons make such a pother about today -- and stored the
Ark of the Covenant, with the Lord God, in the Holy of Holies. Only the
very Top-Boss priests went in and held powwow with the Lord God in the
Holy of Holies. So, when the Temple was destroyed -- or rather the
Second Temple erected by the Jews on the return from the Babylonian
Captivity -- there was no place for the Ark of the Covenant or the Lord
God, therefore no Holy of Holies, therefore no possibility of personal
attendants, therefore no priests excepting as they were designated as
such by courtesy title. The Lord God escaped His coffer in the Holy of
Holies and presumably went back to heaven. The Ark, after many
vicissitudes -- and being hidden hither and yon among the cities of Asia
Minor -- is now credited with reposing in a sealed room in the basement
of the British Museum. For political-racial reasons it is not permitted
to be exhibited or examined.
13. What was the Ark of the
Covenant?
Answer -- The word Ark
literally means: a chest or coffer for the safekeeping of any valuable
thing; a depository. The Ark of the Covenant, in the synagogue or Temple
of the Jews, was the chest or vessel in which the Tables of the Law were
preserved. This was a small chest or coffer, three feet nine inches in
length, two feet three inches in breadth, and the same in height, in
which were contained the various sacred articles. It was made of shittum
wood, overlaid inside and out with gold, and was covered by the Mercy
Seat, called also the Propitiatory -- that is, the lid or cover of
propitiation. Thus, in the language of Hebrew Scripture, those sins
which are forgiven are said to be covered. The orthodox Jew will scoff
at the non-Jewish implication that the Lord God Himself dwelt in or near
such a box, but that was the general acceptance by the populace.
14. Is there any difference
between the Jehovah of the Jews and the Divine Father of Jesus as
worshiped by the Christians?
Answer -- There is a
difference so vast as to render them practically two different
personages. The word Jehovah is the modern English rendering of the
Hebrew term for the Midian tribal deity, Yahvah. Moses, after he had
murdered two Egyptians for their treatment of an Israelite, fled to
Midian, a district across the Red Sea, south of the Land of Goshen.
There he married a Midian wife and became a sheepherder. Jehovah or
Yahvah was the neighborhood god of the Midianites whom Moses seized
upon, and utilized, in his later politico-racial exploits back among the
Egyptians. Moses claimed that this little tribal god, with all his
provincial hates and lusts, was the One Lord God of all the universe.
This last could only be interviewed by Moses in person, or by Aaron or
his Levites when Moses wasn't around. Christ came, and got Himself hated
unto crucifixion, by standing this narrow and fallacious notion of the
deity on its head. Christ said that the Lord God was Universal Spirit,
and that man needed no paid priest or elaborate temple ceremonials to
commune with Him. This threatened the whole basic foundation of Judaism,
since it counselled the masses that priests were dispensable.
Furthermore, Christ taught that
the Lord God was the Father of all mankind, Jew and Gentile alike. This
was insufferable to the Israelites, who had a personal monopoly on the
Creator, He being their original tribal deity and they being His
particular devotees. In the Ebionitic attempts to reconcile the two
identities, however, early church fathers mixed the two deities
hopelessly, and filled the Bible full of contradictions and paradoxes.
See answer to Question 38: Who were the Ebionites?
15. What is the difference
between a Jewish Temple and a Synagogue -- and isn't the synagogue the
Jewish Church?
Answer -- The Lord God,
having mystical connections with the Ark of the Covenant, could only be
at the great Temple at Jerusalem, or wherever the Ark of the Covenant
was, and the High Priest was handy to attend Him. There was but one
Jewish Temple and that was at Jerusalem. But scattered throughout
ancient Palestine, particularly after the Dispersion, were
meeting-houses where the cantors did the sacred chantings on the
Sabbath, and the rabbis expounded the canonical law. These were labeled
Synagogues -- or Community Houses. A synagogue, strictly speaking, was
not a church as we Christians think today of our dedicated edifices; it
was a public gathering place. Hence going into the Synagogue to teach,
no more made Christ a Jew than it would make you or me a Catholic --
presuming that you're a Protestant as I am -- to deliver a lecture on
Pure Foods in a parochial hall in Racine, Wisconsin.
16. Are the modern Jews and the
ancient Israelites one and the same people?
Answer -- For all practical
working purposes, yes! But in the same sense that we might answer the
parallel question: Are the modern Americans and the ancient Pilgrim
Fathers -- who landed on Plymouth Rock and started the settlement of New
England -- one and the same people? According to the Old Testament,
which is purely a transcript of tradition and legend and not much
besides, the Israelites in Egypt were divided into Twelve Tribes.
Each tribe comprised the
descendants of a son of Jacob, or acknowledged tribal allegiance to one
of his sons, who thereby became the tribal patriarch. Among these Twelve
Tribes was one known as the Tribe of Judah. After the conquering of
Canaan -- exactly as this same people tried to "conquer" Germany in the
past generation but was stopped by Hitler, or is now "conquering" the
United States under Roosevelt -- the Tribe of Judah was allotted the
area of land that included the City of David, or what we know today as
Jerusalem. This possession of the capital city within their particular
territory, gave the Tribe of Judah a particular prominence over the
other tribes. Because the Temple and the priestly caste likewise
exercised functions within their allotted territory, the Tribe of Judah
became the more race-and-theology conscious. And the members of this
Tribe "carried on" the more fanatically and zealously in preserving the
legends, traditions, and literature of all the tribes, after the
city's and temple's destruction. It is the progeny of this one tribe of
Israelites, the Tribe of Judah, that we identify as today's Jews. The
members of the other tribes of Israelites have largely disappeard from
the world's face.
17: Were there no Jews in the
world before the coming of Jacob's sons to Egypt?
Answer -- There have always
been the same elements among all populations of the earth that we
identify today as Judaists. The very ancient Egyptian and Sumerian
chronicles refer to them as the People of Set, or "Spirit of Disorder in
Governments." No matter what conditions they found politically or
socially in the lands wherein they were received, they always wanted
them changed, to conform to their own eccentric notions. The Egyptians
seem to have referred to them as the "Set-un" Set being the god of
Darkness and Destruction, and ''un'' being the suffix meaning "people."
We derive our modern word Satan from this source. When Joseph escaped
from his brethren, and went down into Egypt to work himself into the
good graces of Pharaoh, and his brothers later followed him and
"multiplied," this racial element was designated strictly among
Pharaoh's subjects as the Tribe of the Habiru. From the term "Habiru"
the term "Hebrew" comes down to us. But Jews as we know them today were
not so called till after the "conquering" or "overrunning" of Canaan and
its capital city of Jerusalem, and the allotting of the land whereon it
stood to the Tribe of Judah. The word Jew is a sort of slang contraction
of Judaist or member of the specific Tribe of Judah, only we spell it
J-e-w instead of the terser J-u.
18. Was there really an
Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob?
Answer -- We do not know! We
have only tradition and legend to account for them. The Old Testament
says such persons existed, but the contents of the Old Testament were
passed down by word of mouth through a hundred generations before they
became written on scrolls of sheepskin as a permanent literary record.
At the time of the destruction of the first Temple and the Captivity,
most of the records were destroyed. When the Jews came back from the
Captivity and had completed the Second Temple, rebuilding it in tawdry
form upon the ruins of the first Temple, Ezra the High Priest came
running wildly to his compatriots one morning and proclaimed that he had
"found" the ancient records miraculously intact down behind the altar in
the Holy of Holies. Unbiased common sense tends to the conclusion that
there was nothing mysterious or miraculous about it. Ezra rewrote the
legends and traditions of his people from memory, naturally altering
them to make the members of the Tribe of Judah the "big shots" of such
chronicles. It is still this narrative reported by Ezra as thus
"restored," that our Old Testament version of the Egyptian episode comes
from.
19. Did not Christ's words
confirm that there was an Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
Answer -- None of us know
accurately what Christ's real words were. He never left a scrap of paper
or parchment penned by Himself personally. All accounts of His words
were purported as taken down by His disciples or followers, but even
their original manuscripts were lost, and all that we have to go by,
are copies of copies. How these were altered, edited, augmented,
deleted, and transformed, is described in the answer to Question 40
further on: What is the Vulgate?
20. Why does the Old Testament
refer to the early Hebrews as Israelites?
Answer -- Because, before
the coming of the legendary Moses, they were followers of the same
worship as their neighbors, the Egyptians. That is, they were worshipers
of Isis, goddess of life and fecundity, co-deity with the Sun. The word
Israel should be broken down into three syllables: Is-Ra-El. "Is" stands
for Isis; "Ra" means the name of the god of the sun, represented like
Horus -- with the head of a hawk and bearing the disk of the sun atop
it. "El" means "high Lord" or that which is over all, as expressed by
the modern word Elevated. "Ites" means those who follow or belong to. So
Israelites, translating literally, were "those who followed or belonged
to the High Deities Ra and Isis." Moses is popularly supposed to have
changed all that, when he introduced his Midian tribal deity Yahvah to
the people of the Habiru. Today the word Israelites clings to the Jews
merely as a symbol for their identification as one-time worshipers of
the sun.
21. Have we any other accounts
than those of the Old Testament on the advent and adventures of the
Hebrews in Egypt?
Answer -- Yes! Lord Breasted
and others have recovered scores of papyrus scrolls and other records in
very ancient Egyptian tombs along the Nile. These have been translated
from time to time, but modern Jews do their best to discourage such
translations and suppress printed copies of them, because they brutally
contradict the pro-Jewish accounts in the Old Testament.
22. Were the Children of Israel
persecuted by the Egyptians?
Answer -- Undoubtedly! --
but in the same manner that the Nazis of today are persecuting the Jews
of the Fatherland, and from similar causations. The Children of Israel
were not "persecuted" until they had overrun the land of Egypt,
corrupted the Pharaohan court and Egyptian institutions, introduced --
or tried to introduce -- an ancient version of the NRA into Egyptian
politics and economics, and subverted and debased pure-blooded Egyptian
subjects. Finally Moses undertook to get them out, precisely as many an
international Jewish or Zionist leader is trying to get the Jews out of
Germany today but meeting with poor success because such an exodus means
taking so much wealth -- or as the Israelites expressed it, "spoils" --
out of the country. When Pharaoh finally gave his consent to the
departure of the Hebrews, he discovered to his consternation that they
had taken with them vast amounts of portable valuables, and he chased
after them with a force of chariots to recover this loot.
23. Was Pharaoh drowned in the
Red Sea while the favored Hebrews passed over to Midian unscathed?
Answer -- He could not have
been, unless his royal body was recovered, because his fairly
well-authenticated mummy is preserved today in the British Museum.
24. Is the Exodus story a myth?
Answer -- No, but it appears
to be a complete subversion of what actually took place. The debasing
influence of the Habiru or People of Set became so great, that from time
to time severe pogroms occurred. The Egyptians would gladly have let the
Habiru depart, had the latter been willing to go empty-handed. But
taking their property, much of it gotten as dishonestly as the New-Deal
Jews of today have gotten their fortunes by exploitation or open graft,
represented a severe economic problem. In the Scriptures as written by
Jews, however, and thence handed to us for acceptance, all this
hocus-pocus is glorified and blessed by the benedictions of Yahvah. As
for the Chosen-People notion's being fallacious, we have the statement
of a Jew, Dr. Oscar Levy of London, who declared quite frankly: "We
the Jews invented the myth of being God's Chosen People!" Later, Dr.
Levy died a very sudden and mysterious death. You can draw your own
conclusions.
25. Did Moses write the first
five books of the Old Testament?
Answer -- He could not have
done so. At the time of Moses, 1,440 years before Christ, the Hebrews
possessed no language of their own in which to write it. At the most, he
would have had to write in Egyptian hieroglyphics or picture-graphs. Not
till the Hebrews came into contact with the Phoenician peoples after
settlement in the Land of Canaan, did they appropriate the strange
block-letter alphabetical system that we recognize as the Hebrew of
today. Even so, it contained no vowels for many generations. Try to
write a page of this booklet in English, but leave out all the vowels,
and see how accurately you get the exact sense of what is meant. P-T
might stand for pat, pet, pit, pot, or put. How would you know which of
these five words I might mean, were the vowls not used? So how can we
tell what Moses, or any other ancient teacher or "law-giver" said
literally?
26. Why do we call the Jews
"Semites"?
Answer -- Because the
forebears of the Habiru in Egypt were credited with having come from
Arabia and the Arabian peninsula. This district, said legend, was
allotted to Shem, a son of Noah, upon descent from the mythical Ark. The
habitat of the Habiru was likewise described by some authorities as
comprising Abyssinia, Palestine, Phoenicia, and Syria. From the name
Shem, we get the term "Semites" or probably, "Shemites." But the Arabs,
and some Persians, are likewise designated as Semites -- without having
a drop of Jewish blood in them. It is strictly a territorial
designation, as today we term all people Americans who dwell within the
territorial confines of the United States.
27. Have the Jews the right to
designate Palestine as their Homeland?
Answer -- No more and no
less than either the Arabs or Syrians.
When the Habiru were chased out
of Egypt by Pharaoh's charioteers, they "wandered" for forty years in
the Wilderness -- a district no bigger than our State of Connecticut --
and then under Joshua "cased" the Land of Canaan, as bandits "case" a
bank they intend to rob today. In other words, they got the lay of the
land, and then proceeded to attack the Canaanites and take their
property and real estate away from them with the avowed encouragement of
the petty Midian Yahvah. Ultimately they succeeded in this pillage and
sabotage, and parceled out the conquered territory among the Tribes.
David became eventually their greatest political-warrior king, and his
illegitimate son, Solomon, their most voluptuous ruler. After Solomon's
death, the tribal territories were divided under the rule of his two
sons. One son succeeded to rulership over the lands of the Tribes of
Judah and Beniamin, and this coalition came to he known as the Southern
Kingdom; the other son succeeded to the rulership of the remaining
tribes north of Jerusalem, known as the Northern Kingdom.
28. Why were the Jews carried
captive to Babylon?
Answer -- Because
Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian monarch, became utterly outraged over the
manner in which the Hebrews to the southwest of his country and capital
were preying upon his caravans and trade routes to Egypt. In 585 B.C. he
sent an army down into Palestine, defeated the Judaists, and carried
them off to Babylon, razing Solomon's Temple and leaving Jerusalem a
waste. The distance that the Judaists were transported was only a couple
of hundred miles, however. Remember, that the size of all Palestine is
only 75 miles wide by 193 miles long -- about the same territorial
coverage as the State of Massachusetts. The duration of this Captivity
is usually reckoned as 70 years, although, strictly speaking, it lasted
only 56 years. A great part of the remaining Northern Tribes had
previously been taken captive to Assyria for similar maraudings.
29. Why do today's Jews make
such an ungodly pother about returning to Palestine as a race?
Answer -- Most of it is
lachrimose propaganda. The Jews do not want to return to
Palestine. In the first place, a country only 75 miles wide and 193
miles long couldn't contain them. In the second place, they wouldn't be
happy living with one another, having to endure one another, and being
without Gentiles to exploit. History has proven this; it is no
particular libel. The true reasons why the Jews are making such a clamor
over having Palestine "returned" to them, is the presence of the
stupendous mineral and chemical wealth in the Dead Sea, which would go
to them along with the presentation, and the fact that in Palestine they
would be in a strategic position to introduce Jewish-Communist Russia
down to the Suez Canal and thereby sever a major artery between the
British Isles and India. This would inflict a mortal wound to the
British Commonwealth of Nations. Material gain is usually the real basis
of any project over which the Jew waxes sentimental!
30. How many Jews are there in
the whole world today?
Answer -- Jewish populations
are usually deceptive when given in the census figures, because Jews are
forever trying to hide their Jewish nationality or race. Furthermore,
when Jewish authorities compile a strictly Jewish census, they count
males who have attained to their majorities only. As the average human
family of any race customarily consists of five persons, we are safe in
multiplying whatever figures the Jews give us of their numbers by five,
or adding four times the original figure. Gentiles do not possess an
accurate count of all the Jews in all the countries of the earth, but 80
millions -- men, women, and children -- would not be a wild estimate.
Doubtless it is nearer a hundred millions, considering that the earth
holds 2 billion inhabitants. That there are something like 25 million
Jews, males and of age, within the civilized countries of the earth is a
sound possibility. Of these, some 12,046,648 are in the United States at
the present time. Only ten years ago, the figure, from Jewish sources,
was set at 4,228,029. In other words, Jews in the United States have
increased by 7,818,619 since 1927 -- an average of something like 15,000
a week! Fully half the world's Jews would seem to be within the United
States at the present time. And arrangements are being completed under
the American Jewish leaders and the Roosevelt Administration to bring
the rest here as swiftly as it ran be managed!
31. What is the Jewish
Sanhedrin?
Answer -- It is -- or was --
the supreme international council of the Jews, established at the time
of the Maccabees, probably under John Hyrcanus. It consisted of 71
members, and was presided over by the Nasi -- or "prince" -- at
whose side stood the Ab-Beth-Din, or "Father of the Tribunal." Its
members represented the different castes and classes of Hebrew society.
There were priests, elders -- that is, heads of families -- men of age
and experience, scribes or doctors of law, and others exalted by eminent
learning -- the sole condition of acceptance into this assembly. The
presidency was usually conferred upon the High Priest, if he were
sufficiently erudite, otherwise "he who excels all others in wisdom."
The limits of its jurisdiction are not known with certainty but the
supreme decision over life and death was exclusively in its hands. With
the exception of Sabbath and feast days, it met daily. After the
destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem, it finally established itself,
after many migrations, in Babylon. During the Middle Age, we find, it
met in Constantinople.
32. Is the Sanhedrin still in
active existence?
Answer -- Gentiles who have
made a deep study of the Jewish Question and international organizations
and activities of Jews, have ample evidence for believing so. But the
Jews seem to have reasons for keeping its existence a secret till their
fancied or anticipated reestablishment of their material kingdom over
the earth is accomplished.
33. Do Jews actually believe
that the day is coming when they are going to be supreme masters over
all the other races and peoples of earth?
Answer -- Orthodox Jews most
certainly do! Apostate Jews are cynical about the whole business, but
are by no means averse to looting all Gentiles and obtaining their
wealth as they may discern opportunity. This unhallowed business in
action is the world-wide movement known as Communism. Gentiles and the
world's laboring classes are the instruments utilized to get this
accomplished. But most Jews seem to have altered their notions about
such dominance by modern Israel's coming about through the appearance of
one man, a messiah, or anointed leader. They now interpret the ancient
prophecies, that "the Jews as a race shall be the world messiah" and
make the world over into one united kingdom with a single great Jew as
supreme dictator. See the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The
Talmud is literally loaded with such interpretations, too. The orthodox
Jews consider the matter idealistically. The apostate, or atheistic
Jews, are riding along perfectly content to profit from the gains of
Jewry as a whole, and despoiling the modern Egyptians with zest,
whenever and wherever they are permitted the chance.
34. Are the Jews a united
people for the achievement of a world messiahship?
Answer -- They most
certainly are not! They are guilty of quite as much racial
discontent, brawling, and general psychopathy among themselves as
against the Gentiles. And this state of things has always been true.
From the return from the Captivity, down to the destruction of Jerusalem
by Titus and the scattering of the Jews throughout the nations of the
earth, the average length of reign of the Jewish kings -- and one Jewish
queen, Alexandria -- was no longer than two years. Jews can't agree on
rulers, even among themselves. Yet they think themselves capable of
ruling all the other nations, comprising millions upon millions of
Gentiles. The perpetual cry of their leaders, from Rabbi Ashe to Rabbi
Wise, has forever been: "Stop your fighting and get together!" But the
Jew can't "get together," not even with his own breed. The phobia of
"being different" has bitten into him too deeply. The only thing that
really drives the Jews into any sort of unity is persecution or violence
directed against all classes of them as a people. Then they coalesce
like sheep in a fold, all packed together and wailing to high heaven --
only sheep don't wail. Only Jews wail. And how they wail!
35. How do Sephardic Jews
differ from Ashkenazic Jews?
Answer -- The Sephardim are
the Jews of the Mediterranean Basin -- Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and
later Dutch and English Jews -- who have diluted their Jewish blood with
these Latin and Nordic races by cross-marrying to such an extent that
Gentile characteristics predominate. They can usually be identified only
by Jewish names -- if they have not changed them -- or by the Jewish
temperament as it exercises in times of crisis or vicissitude. Sephardic
men have clean-chiseled Grecian profiles and lips. Sephardic women are
dark-eyed and strikingly beautiful. The Ashkenazim, on the other hand,
are the Russian, Polish, or German Jews -- in other words, Mongoloid
Jews -- who were swept into Asia and Europe when the Assyrian king
"scattered" the Northern Tribes and replaced them with Gallic peoples
brought down by him from the Danube Valley. The Ashkenazic Jews are
possessed of the "schnozzle" nose, derived from Assyrian interbreedings,
the small round head on the thick neck, and the gross and vulgar
mannerisms making them so offensive to Gentiles of reserve and
Christians of refinement. When the Ashkenazim crossed their
Mediterranean Hebrew or Sumerian with the Russian, Polish, or German
tongues, they got a hybrid vernacular that is called Yiddish. Generally
speaking, it can be said that the great mass of the Sephardim are
orthodox Jews, and the great mass of the Ashkenazim are apostate Jews.
The Sephardim uniformly hold that Judaists constitute the devotees of a
religion; the Ashkenazim uniformly hold that the Judaists are a race or
political unit. The Sephardim believe in gaining ascendancy over the
non-Jewish races by strategy and peaceful penetration; the more or less
apostate Ashkenazim believe in going straight to their ascendancy by
crack-down and violence. Thereby do we witness Communism being mainly
supported and advanced by Ashkenazic Jews, while the Sephardim behold it
in an increasing alarm, sensing that the world's Gentiles may eventually
penalize or exterminate all Jews for the lusts, hatreds, and atrocities
of the Communistic Ashkenazim, and they find themselves included.
36. To which branch of Jews did
Jesus Christ belong?
Answer -- Jesus Christ
belonged to neither branch! Shocking as it becomes to modern Christians,
an examination of the evidence now coming to light reveals that Jesus
Christ was not a Jew or any other kind of an Israelite! This, of
course, strikes at the very core and heart of present Christian
doctrine. Nevertheless, sooner or later, Aryan Christians have got to
face the facts. It takes a whole volume in itself to present these
facts, but such a volume is available. In the first place, the only true
Jews are descendants of the Tribe of Judah, and even if Biblical bases
be taken for argument, the New Testament says in a score of places that
He emphatically did not come from that tribe. Christ was a Galilean and
a Nazarene. Galilee got its name from the Gauls, brought down by the
Assyrian king when he denuded, the northern kingdom of Hebrews. The
proper spelling of the word should be Gaulilee. Over and over, too, the
New Testament writings speak of "Galilee of the Gentiles" ... The
genealogies of Christ in the two New Testament Gospels do not determine
the matter, since they do not agree, and since they do not agree,
neither one of them can be established as authentic. Moreover, Jews
reckoned genealogies through the father, always. Christians are
confronted by the dilemma that if they make a tenet of their faith that
Mary conceived Christ by the Holy Ghost, then she did not conceive
Christ by Joseph her husband; and if she did not do the latter, then the
Hebrew genealogies, tracing Jesus' ancestry back to David and Abraham,
are fabrications. Jesus did not speak the prevalent Jewish tongue of the
period; He conversed in what was a Gentile language. At no place did He
Himself confirm that He was a Jew, and the words before Pilate, "Thou
sayest!" were merely a colloquialism, not of acquiescence to Pilate's
remark but of the thought: "You're doing the talking, I'm keeping
quiet!" This great question about the Jewishness or non-Jewishness of
Jesus, manifestly cannot be handled in a handbook of this size. If you
are interested to read the complete attestments of his Gentile blood and
background, send to the publishers of this booklet for the
lengthier volume.
37. Why did the Jews deny
Christ?
Answer -- Because He would
not subscribe to the tenet that their little Midianite tribal deity,
Yahvah, could possibly be the Great Creator of the Universe and the
author of all living things, or that such a Great Creator had a Chosen
People, or that the Hebrew religion as the Sanhedrin propounded it, was
a true religion, or that the Jews as such were due to inherit the earth
and rulership over all its institutions. No man who thus struck at the
roots of Judaism, could possibly be their long looked-for Messiah.
Furthermore, Christ was the outstanding "Jew-Baiter" of His day. He
called the scribes and Pharisees hypocrites and whited sepulchres, and
indicted the Sanhedrin to the teeth of its bigshots as being "of the
Synagogue of Satan." In other words, by not being willing to "play the
Jew game" to other nations and races, Christ was identified as an
"enemy" of the Jews; and the Jews know of but one way in which to treat
their enemies: Kill them!
38. Why does the Bible, as the
"Inspired Word of God," persistently represent Christ as being a Jew?
Answer -- Because the
Biblical manuscripts, comprising the Old and New Testaments as we know
them today, were written under Jewish auspices, by writers striving to
reconcile the prophecies of the Hebraic Old Testament with the
astounding and not-controllable spread of the new Christianity.
Obviously, if Christianity continued to grow and strengthen, in time it
would supersede and exterminate Judaism altogether. So the Judaists got
busy and worked out a clever ruse that, in practice, came to be called
Ebionitism. They "tied into" the aggressive and expanding new religion
by preaching that Christianity was the outgrowth of Judaism. Because
Christianity was built upon a blanket castigation of everything
Judaistic, to be an utter Christian one had to go through the same
process and first be a Judaist. After one had first acknowledged
everything Judaistic, including the priority of authority of the law of
Moses, the authenticity of the Hebrew prophets and prophecies, and the
whole patriarchal background of Judaism, then one was ready to take the
next step into Christianity. Thus, one of the most important tenets of
this atrocious subversion was to make the text impress upon the would-be
convert's mind that even Jesus Himself was born a Jew. Therefore if
there hadn't been any Jews, there wouldn't have been any Jesus, and if
there hadn't been any Jesus, there wouldn't have been any Christian
religion. This subversion and rewriting of the sacred text was carried
to so bold a point that in one place it is crassly and satanically
stated that . . . "salvation is of the Jews!" Salvation is nothing of
the sort. Salvation is of the Christ, and the Holy Spirit! To explain
the point in the modern scene, it is like saying that after a few
hundred years the German Jews will get together and subvert the whole
Nazi program in history by giving it out that Hitler was a Jew --
because he lived, operated, and instructed in German-Jewish Germany --
and that one couldn't become a good Nazi without first subscribing to
the tenets of predatory Jewry, because otherwise what would Nazism
have had, to be different from or agitate against?
39. What was Ebionitism?
Answer -- The subversive
instructors, sent out by the Jerusalem authorities to imbed such notions
in the minds of early Christian converts, were called Ebionites. It was
their job and commission to make the very Judaism against which Christ
inveighed, the foundation and background of the new Christian theology.
Christ must be made to say that He came "to fulfil the law of Moses."
Thereby the law of Moses became quite as essential to the new religion
as did Christ. And so on, throughout a hundred scriptural passages.
Again, we can compare it to the Jews of a hundred years hence making
Hitler to say "I came to fulfil the law of Karl Marx!" These Ebionites
had their headquarters in the Greek city of Pella, so that they would
not be openly recognized as subversive missionaries for the Jerusalem
Sanhedrinists. And it was in, or near, Pella that the New Testament
manuscripts were compiled. The Apostle Paul once cut up an awful
shindy about the mischief of Ebionitism, and said that the Doctrine of
the Trinity had nothing whatsoever to do with Judaism. It was a
clean-cut departure from it. Yet when the Gospels came to be
translated into other languages for our modern world, the New Testament
Gospels were dyed dripping wet with the subvertings and deceptions of
Ebionitism. Christian people today who say, "Yes, I know the Jews
crucified Christ, and I know He said some atrocious things against them;
also I know that Jews are practically wrecking our United States with
their crazy incompetence -- all the same we have to remember that
they are God's Chosen People, " -- these are but modern Ebionites,
acquiescing to the very doctrine that the Sanhedrin went to much trouble
and expense to promulgate and get incorporated into the Christian's
"holy" books.
40. Isn't the Bible the
Inspired Word of God?
Answer -- No! Not literally
considered! It cannot be such, because it holds too many contradictions
and paradoxes in its present form, and a Perfect Creator could not
indite a contradictory or paradoxical book. This view is confirmed by no
less an authority than St. Jerome. About the year 370 A. D. he
translated the whole Bible into Latin. Damascus, who was Pope at that
time, had asked him to attempt such translation. Jerome, in a letter to
Damascus, reported on his work in connection with the new version. He
wrote that "it would be a dangerous presumption" to attempt to issue a
Bible which would reproduce the correct text, since the existing copies
of the original documents were scattered all over the world and no
two of them were alike! Jerome was now called to judge between them.
If he did so, and produced a Bible, it would be so unlike anything
currently passing for the Bible, that he would be dubbed a forger and
fabricator. He would be charged with having altered words and sentences,
having omitted something here or inserted something there, or trying to
"improve" on originals elsewhere. And then he added a remark that
strikes a body blow at all who hold today's Bible to be the
unadulterated Word of God: "Even those who condemn me as an impious
forger must admit that we can no longer speak of such a thing as Truth,
where there are variations in that which is said to be true." In his
letter, Jerome went on to state how the many discrepancies between the
copies of the original text can be explained. Some copyists, he said,
were deliberate criminal forgers. Others were conceited enough to
attempt to improve on the text, but in their inexperience only succeeded
in impairing it. Still others dozed while they copied, and so left out,
misread or misplaced words and passages. To say that God nevertheless
caused Absolute Truth to result from all this, is to rationalize an
absurdity.
41. What is the Vulgate?
Answer -- The Vulgate is the
Bible that St. Jerome produced, none-the-less, when he went ahead as
Damascus directed and "cleaned up" prevalent "Holy" Writ after his own
notions and erudition. But he did precisely what he lamented that others
had done before him. He followed his own personal opinion, altered words
and passages, made omissions, and wrote into it such stuff as suited his
caprice. Maybe God was using St. Jerome as editor. But if He did, then
assuredly God showed Himself as naught but a Papist of the period. Then,
by decree of the Council of Trent, it was declared that the Vulgate
contained the inspired Word of God. Jerome, of course, was a top-notch
Ebionite. Everything in the New Testament rested four-square upon the
Old. The Jews were still God's Chosen People. Jesus was a Jew. One could
not subscribe to being a good Christian without first subscribing to
being a good Judaist and accepting all the patriarchal fol-de-rol --
much of it unmoral and obscene -- which Christianity appeared to
exterminate and supplant. So the Jews today profit. And the modern rabbi
cries to the anti-Semite battling for survival of his precious
Christianity: "If you repudiate us, you repudiate the Savior whom we
gave you!"
The insolence of it!
42. How can we condemn or
persecute people who cannot help having been born into the Jewish race?
Answer -- We should consider
that we are neither condemning nor persecuting, when we look squarely at
the Jewish Enigma in modern society, recognize its fundamentals for what
they are, and declare that after due discrimination, we do not want them
further materialized in a country which recognizes the Christian moral
code as all that epitomizes true spiritual greatness. Disapproving of
the Jew and his mischievous background, moving to harness him from
subverting Christian institutions or debasing Christian culture, is
not persecution, excepting as the Jew himself seizes upon that ruse
to blunt the edge of the resistance sent against him. That a child is
born to Jewish parents is neither here nor there. Children are likewise
born to parents who are burglars, counterfeiters, and highwaymen. Is
that any reason why we should not raise up authorities to put a stop to
robbery, counterfeiting, or thuggery? If one is metaphysically inclined,
it is probably true that a given child is born to Jewish parents because
"like attracts like" and children are born to parents toward whom they
have karmic adjustments to work out. If one is strictly orthodox in his
beliefs, a Jewish child, born with Jewish blood in his veins, and reared
in a Jewish persecution-complex from infancy, must stand elementally
with his people till the two great antithetical philosophies of Judaism
and Christianity move to a crisis and one bests the other for good and
all. This Jewish child, as it grows, has ample opportunity to discern
wherein the conduct or ethics of its people are right or wrong. If it
disapproves, then it can live its own life righteously. That is its
prerogative in Free Will. But again, condemnation or persecution in
regard to the Jew is no more than the disapproval and legal restraint
that society throws around any individual whose ways do not work for the
universal good. Let us not be Ebionites in this item, either. If we want
a clean country to live in, we've got to be willing to do our parts
toward its constant sanitation.
43. What is to be the future of
the Jews when this present paroxysm of anti-Semitism has run its course?
Answer -- The Jew as an
unruly and wilful race-child, is going to be made by the more sedate
parental races to submit himself to wholesome discipline, get over his
obsession that God loves him more than his Gentile neighbor, stop the
glorification of personal and racial dishonesties, and take his place in
world society as a chastened and penitent citizen. He is to have branded
into his eternal consciousness that being classed as a Jew is tantamount
to being classed as an immature or fledgling Spirit, with much to learn
culturally and esoterically before he may call himself a true worldly
resident -- thereby consulting his own good as much as the good of his
associates. Probably thousands will lose their present lives in the
process, but that will all be part of the general education. Let us
waste no lacrimose sentimentality over these great elemental issues
between distinctive blocs of the human race. They are set in movement to
teach the mass populace something which it very much requires to know
permanently.
44. Why jump on all the Jews,
just because some of them misbehave? Aren't there any good Jews?
Answer -- To judge as
between good and bad, we must first have a standard. When the question
is put: "Aren't there any good Jews?" the implication is strong that
Jews judged by the Christian moral standard and Christian social ethics,
are meant. But on the other hand, the Jew himself doesn't use -- but
repudiates -- the Christian moral standard and Christian social ethics.
To be a "good" Jew, to himself, he must be a very Judaistic Jew --
meaning a Jew who follows literally the instructings of the two Talmuds
and generally considers the Christians as having been put on earth for
Jewish exploitation or human drudgery.
To be a "good" Jew to his
Christian neighbor, he must, in the sense of doctrine and logic, be a
"bad" Jew to the orthodox Talmudist. So a good Jew is a bad Jew to the
Talmudist, and a bad Jew to the Talmudist is a good Jew to the
Christian. If we want to ask: "Are there not some Jews that obey the
laws, conduct themselves decorously, and do not lie, cheat, or steal?"
it is possible that they exist as individuals. But it is the damning
indictment of this race and its ethics that they thereby prove
themselves exceptions to the racial rule. The Jew is, first of all,
himself! As Christianity is the antithesis or opposite of Judaism,
so the Jew must forever be something "different" from the Christian
Gentile. We have to look upon him as a Jew, racially and theologically,
and say: "There may be some Jews who are a little less Jewish than their
fellows." But we are herein considering Jews as a race, not as
individuals. The moment the Jew starts being too "good" according to the
Christian's standard, he ceases being a Jew. But his rabbi will soon get
after him if he doesn't watch out!
45. Is it true that all Jews
are Communists?
Answer -- In fairness to our
Jewish citizens, no! No more than all Americans, by the very fact of
being Americans, are necessarily good patriots. It has been repeatedly
said, not without truth, that Communism itself is Jewish. By that is
meant that the system known as Communism was conceived by a Jew -- Karl
Heinrich Mordecai, alias Marx -- and since the publication of the
Communist Manifesto in 1848 has been uniformly promoted and
propagandized by Jews. We find the foul egg which later hatched into
Communism described in the correspondence between Marx and Baruch Levy:
"The Jewish people as a whole will be its own messiah. It will attain
world domination by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of
frontiers, by the annihilation of monarchy which has always been the
support of individualism, and by the establishment of a world republic
in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship.
In this new world order, the Children of Israel, who are scattered over
the world, will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition;
and this will more particularly be the case if they succeed in getting
the working masses under their control. The governments of the different
peoples forming the world republic will, through the victory of the
proletariat, fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will
then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and
everywhere to make use of the resources of the State. Thus will the
promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which it is said, that when the
Messianic time has come, the Jews will have the property of the whole
world in their hands." From this scheme, the main mass of the world's
Jews have, of course, not dissented. The Jew, Marx, went ahead with his
Scientific Socialism , and found the Ashkenazic Jews uniformly
sympathetic and endorsive of what he proposed to accomplish. You will
note therefore, that when Communism first came into post-war Russia, not
only were Lenin and Trotsky both Ashkenazic Jews, but of 504 kommissars
at the head of the politbureau running Bolshevia, 496 of them were
Ashkenazic Hebrews, and the other eight renegade white Russians or
Armenians. That's the way Communism works in practice and why we have
the reasonable right to say that Communism is Jewish -- or Ashkenazic
World Jewry in Action. The Sephardim, in the main, believe more in
gaining their ends over the Gentiles by strategy and political
maneuvers. They are horrified, more or less, at what aroused Gentiles
may do to all Jews for developing the nightmare of Communism, and
in many cases work as they can to lay or defeat it. At the same time,
they do not want to go so far in defeating it that they join openly with
Gentiles or destroy Jewish racial gains to the moment.
THESE 45 Questions, of course, by no means
comprise all the interrogations which can be projected regarding the
people known as Jews. But they are the 45 Questions that are most
constantly asked by common folk, seeking to know why the Jews meet with
trouble everywhere they take up residence. In course of time there may
be a second booklet gotten out, answering questions of importance that
have been omitted for lack of space or overlooked.
What has been printed herein,
however, should be sufficient to give the average American a fair
working knowledge of the background of the Jewish Problem.
"He that hath ears to
hear, let him hear!"

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